The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.
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More Charles Dickens Quotes
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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
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Come, let’s be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.
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Reflect upon your present blessings.
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I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
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We forge the chains we wear in life.
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All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.
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We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.
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The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.
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Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
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We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?
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It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.
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You have been the last dream of my soul.
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I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.
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A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.
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